Week of 2206-05-25

Howdy, hope you’re doing well!

I’m up in Seattle right now, killing a little bit of time before I head downtown to CascadiaJS. It’s a Monday, and I have a minute, so let’s cruise through my notes—because I’m not taking my iPad with me.

Moar CAD

This didn’t change much from the previous week, although things have finally been coming together.

I’ve essentially built out a miniature humidifier for Morgan’s sets, built into a tray and toggleable by a switch. It has required atrocities against a Micro USB cable, but hey—gotta get use out of the old standard somehow.

Once I get home, I’ll be printing out the rest of the pieces. I’ll show a picture/video once they’re all assembled.

VPS

I’ve become attached to taking my 11” iPad Pro everywhere with me instead of my Macbook Air, and since I was preparing to travel for CascadiaJS, I wanted access to a developer environment on the go.

There are a couple of other things I’d like, such as my own Tranquil instance, and some sandboxed user accounts for messing with agents. A VPS seemed like the right idea, because I don’t exactly want to untangle the reverse proxy issue on my homelab at the moment.

I’ve spun up a DigitalOcean droplet, loaded it with NixOS, and I’ve started getting some customizations together. Since my Macbook is also NixOS, I had most of the shell-level customizations already done. I definitely need to get all my configurations pulled together and into a repository, though.

I haven’t gotten to use it much, but it’s been pleasant so far. I’ll keep you posted once it’s doing something cool!

CascadiaJS

There was a whole flurry of activity leading up to this conference.

First in foremost, I’d like to point out atmo.quest, a project by my fellow PDX organizers @vvill.dev and @brittanyellich.com .

It’s like youandme.at, but with the intention of onboarding folks to the Atmosphere, and with some extra utilities like notes, follow-up indicators, and some fun badges.

atmo.quest

Scan a QR, write a note, leave with a real follow-up list. Your data goes to your repo, not ours.

So far, I’m having a great time at the conference, and it hasn’t officially started yet! I’m running out of time, so you’ll have to wait to hear about it next week.

Okay, I gotta go catch a train now. Thank you as always for reading this far, and I hope you have a great week!